Alexandre Dumas: Quotes about love

Alexandre Dumas was French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”

Alexandre Dumas

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

“Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.'
'Do you mean to say that if I left you---'
'I'd die, yes.'
'Then you love me?”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“…… When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”

Alexandre Dumas

Source: CliffsNotes on Dumas's The Three Musketeers

“Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers (1844), Ch. 63: The Drop of Water.